How do meat company's kill their chickens and cows?

Question

Like do they use bolts in the head or electricity?

Answer 1

It is up to the packing plant or butcher to choose a number of methods set forth by the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. The Humane Slaughter Act, or the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act, is a United States federal law designed to protect food animals during the moment of their slaughter. It was passed in 1958.

"No method of slaughtering or handling in connection with slaughtering shall be deemed to comply with the public policy of the United States unless it is humane. Either of the following two methods of slaughtering and handling are hereby found to be humane:

(a) in the case of cattle, calves, horses, mules, sheep, swine, and other livestock, all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut; or

(b) by slaughtering in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Jewish faith or any other religious faith that prescribes a method of slaughter whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument and handling in connection with such slaughtering."

The USDA reguraly inspects plants to be sure they follow these guidelines. I have been in many plants and I know for a fact that they do inspections,

Answer 2

I had a friend who worked for Tyson. The factory basically had a beheadding/plucking machine for the chickens. Cows get a bolt to the head, again on a conveyer-belt, but it's common knowledge many are missed and die by the beheadding and de-limbing of the machine. Cows are more dangerous when they don't die or at least get stunned, because they have a lot of mass and can damage the machinery when they struggle. Sometimes they'd have to shut the process down to realign parts.

Answer 3

Steers get a bolt to the head. Chickens electrocuted in brine solution. Cows make milk. Moo.

Answer 4

Don't know about chickens, but cows get a steel rod actuated by air pressure to the middle of the skull. I've been in meat packing plants and have seen it. They don't know what hit them. If they were smart, they would learn to drive and haul ***. Stupid cow.

Answer 5

most of them use a knife to cut the heads off. See if you kill an animal and let it sit for too long, the meat gets spoiled, especially if the body heat is retained within the caucus.

after the head has been cut off, work immediately begins on getting the meat form the various parts of the body.

Answer 6

I think that this questions been answered sufficiently... cows get the bolt, while chickens get shocked or beheaded. Question is why did you want to know!? Most Americans are too squeemish to even think about it, so put it out of their little minds... thus, they can still feel self-righeous when they put down the hunters in this great land!

Answer 7

Some cow slayers use a mallet to head, others a guillotine. Chickens always get the chair.

Answer 8

Well, for animals wich the hide is recuperate (E.G.: Cows to make leather) they try and kill them....the least violent way possible. To do so, they stick a metal rod with current running through it up the animals anus. For the rest of the animals, I can't tell you

Answer 9

They wait for a violent thunderstorm and let the bolts of lightning do the job.

Answer 10

i'm not sure on the cows but i do know that at the chicken plant in mifflin they cut their throat and hang them by their feet till they bleed out then in hot water to pull feathers off gut them and send them on their way. we kill our cows with gun and slice throat hang to bleed out then clean and cut them up